Re: Timeouts and retries on high speed Lans

2010-09-14 Thread Kalman Feher
So the cache servers are HA behind something (F5 LTM, Cisco local director, something else). Are the authoritative servers? It would seem sensible to do the same with them. That way a timeout only occurs if the whole HA cluster is unavailable. You can alleviate even that situation by seeding the ca

Timeouts and retries on high speed Lans

2010-09-14 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have been working on building out a couple of large data centres and have been struggling with how to set up the systems so that we get a high resilience, highly responsive DNS service in the presence of failing equipment. The configuration we have adopted includes a layer of BIND 9.6.x servers